From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 18:31: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rdsl2-1.ddsl.mr.net (rdsl2-1.ddsl.mr.net [137.192.134.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4DA37B446 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scotch (scotch.snowplow.org [10.1.1.3]) by rdsl2-1.ddsl.mr.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D93EFC6F; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:28:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <00f401c029b5$696e0050$0301010a@scotch> From: "Eric Hedberg" To: "Jason C. Wells" , "Artem Koutchine" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Good network monitoring utility Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:34:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG MRTG works well enough, I suppose, but I'm partial to Cricket (cricket.sourceforge.net) for the router/device snmp monitoring job. It's far easier to configure, and I've found it to be much less of a performance hog on a mid-sized (50 routers and such) network -- I can't imagine trying to scale MRTG much past that. -Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Artem Koutchine" Cc: ; Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: Re: Good network monitoring utility > On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Artem Koutchine wrote: > > > I need to monitor host on a medium sized (but spread and heterogenic) > > local network and a couple of remote host in Internet. On FreeBSD/Linux > > based machines I also would like to monitor security (network attacks > > mostly). > > MRTG also exists. You need to run an snmp agent on any monitored host. > You also need to be snmp savvy. MRTG is good at network monitoring. > > Big Brother works well for host monitoring. > > Thank you, > Jason C. Wells > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message